"Jeremy Vine Jeremy Guy Vine (born 17 May 1965) is a British presenter, broadcaster and journalist. He is best known as the host of his own BBC Radio 2 programme which presents news, views, interviews with live guests and popular music. He is known for his direct interview style, and exclusive reporting from war-torn areas throughout Africa. Vine is also the host of the BBC long-running quiz show ""Eggheads"", taking over from former host Dermot Murnaghan full-time in 2014. Since September 2018 he has presented his own Channel 5 daily current affairs show called ""Jeremy Vine"". In 2015 he was"
"Are You an Egghead? Are You an Egghead? is a BBC quiz show that was presented by Dermot Murnaghan. It is a spin-off from the quiz show ""Eggheads"", with its goal to find a further Egghead to complement the existing team. The first series was aired weekdays from 20 October to 2 December 2008 and was won by Barry Simmons. The second and final series was aired from 12 October to 23 November 2009 and was won by Pat Gibson. A similar show, ""Make Me an Egghead"", aired in 2016. In May 2008, auditions for a sixth person to join"
"over from Terry Wogan. On 6 October 2008, he started hosting the BBC Two quiz show ""Eggheads"" while the spin-off show, ""Are You an Egghead?"", was presented by the regular host, Dermot Murnaghan. Once the spin-off show had finished, Vine continued to host the second half of each series, with Murnaghan hosting the first half. In Series 16, it was announced that Vine had become the sole presenter. As of 2014, Vine also hosted the spin-off series ""Revenge of the Egghead"". The series ran for a 6-week period, between 24 February and 4 April 2014. From 2016–17, Vine co-presented ""Crimewatch"""
"the ""Eggheads"" team began. These auditions developed into a spin-off show, hosted by original Eggheads presenter Dermot Murnaghan. During the first series, from 20 October to 2 December 2008, the show aired at 4:30pm, weekdays on BBC Two. Series 2 also aired at 4:30pm on BBC Two and began on 12 October 2009. The auditions whittled the competition down to 32 contestants, who then played against each other in a straight knockout format to decide who would become the sixth Egghead. There were 16 first round matches, 8 in the second round, 4 quarterfinal matches and two semi finals and"
"2016, two brand-new Eggheads (one male and one female) joined the panel after a spin-off series entitled ""Make Me an Egghead"". This chart displays when each presenter and Egghead was active. The black bars denote the start of each series. The highest amount any team has won to beat the Eggheads is £75,000 in 2007 (Series 8, Episode 14) by a team of Oxford Brookes University students, ""Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow"". The first series of ""Celebrity Eggheads"" was 5 editions that ran from 15 to 19 December 2008, and was presented by Dermot Murnaghan. On 7 December 2009, 10 more"
"Make Me an Egghead Make Me an Egghead is a BBC Two quiz show presented by Jeremy Vine. It was a spin-off from ""Eggheads"" with the goal to find two further Eggheads, one male and one female, to complement the existing team of seven. It ran from 22 August to 23 September 2016 and was won by Steve Cooke and Beth Webster. A similar show, ""Are You an Egghead?"", aired in 2008 and 2009. After CJ de Mooi left ""Eggheads"" for an acting career in Cape Town, South Africa, the BBC announced that it would be airing a televised search"
"of an earlier format on Channel 4 Television. He co-presented BBC Breakfast from Monday to Thursday as well as regularly fronting national BBC news bulletins until December 2007. In October 2007, it was announced that Murnaghan would be leaving the BBC for Sky News. Murnaghan became the second news presenter to depart the corporation in the same month – Natasha Kaplinsky also left to join Five News, produced by Sky. His last time presenting Breakfast was 20 December 2007. Murnaghan presented the BBC Two daytime show ""Eggheads"" from 2003 until 2008, as well as its short-lived spin-off series ""Are You"
"CJ de Mooi CJ de Mooi (, also known as Connagh Joseph De Mooi, born 5 November 1969) is a British professional quizzer, best known for his time as a panellist on the BBC Television show ""Eggheads"". He adopted the name de Mooi when he began working as a model; he translates it as Dutch for ""handsome"", though the actual translation would be ""the pretty"". De Mooi appeared on a number of television quiz shows before ""Eggheads"" (first aired in 2003), where he was one of five original members of the show's eponymous team. In December 2011, de Mooi announced"
"to beat. The team can confer on every question. Every wrong answer means that the team loses one of their lives and if they lose all of their lives, they leave with nothing but if they beat the target, they win an equal share of the prize fund. A 25-part spin-off series ran from 22 August to 23 September 2016, with the search for two new members for the Eggheads line-up: one male, one female. The series was won by Steve Cooke and Beth Webster. Eggheads (TV series) Eggheads is a British quiz show that airs on weekdays. It was"
"""Eggheads"", teamed up with other quiz champions, in which members of the public pit their wits against them in order to win a cash prize. Alongside his Egghead team mates he also took part in the spin-off show ""Are You an Egghead?"", a competition to find further members of the Egghead team resulting in the addition of Barry Simmons in 2008 and Pat Gibson in the second series in 2009. For ten years Ashman had never incorrectly answered a history category question. This happened for the first time on 6 January 2014. Currently ranked World/European number 1, Ashman has 17"
"holds a record for the most appearances by a woman on the BBC's ""Mastermind"". She is active on the Quizzing Grand Prix Circuit in the United Kingdom, and in The Quiz League of London. She and the Women's runner-up, Julia Hobbs, were both ranked as ""Sages"" in the 2012 Order of Merit listings of the British Quiz Association. Make Me an Egghead Make Me an Egghead is a BBC Two quiz show presented by Jeremy Vine. It was a spin-off from ""Eggheads"" with the goal to find two further Eggheads, one male and one female, to complement the existing team"
"he had left ""Eggheads"" permanently to pursue an acting career. He appeared in broadcast episodes until August 2012 and was replaced on the show by Dave Rainford. However, he returned to a new, short-lived format of ""Eggheads"" in 2014 called ""Revenge of the Egghead"". He stated he returned because of his 'love of the show'. He then returned to the main version of ""Eggheads"" replacing Daphne Fowler. In 2016, Mooi was accused of sexual assault but was subsequently cleared. In an interview with the ""Daily Mirror"" de Mooi also mentioned that he had been axed from ""Eggheads"" and had re-located"
"Arrest Warrant issued in the Netherlands. A judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court declined the extradition request on technical grounds, on 24 October 2016, saying that no UK arrest warrant had been issued. In October 2018, de Mooi was declared bankrupt following lengthy legal proceedings in connection with the arrest. CJ de Mooi CJ de Mooi (, also known as Connagh Joseph De Mooi, born 5 November 1969) is a British professional quizzer, best known for his time as a panellist on the BBC Television show ""Eggheads"". He adopted the name de Mooi when he began working as a model; he"
"presenter of the programme. When she went on maternity leave, Kate Silverton presented a few editions before she in turn was replaced, with Louise Minchin, Declan Curry or James Dagwell being the new regular presenters. Towards the end there was no regular presenter with a guest presenter being used for the programme, including Maryam Moshiri, Paddy O'Connell, Matt Barbet, Rory Cellan Jones, Alex Stanger, Rachel Horne, Nicola Pearson and Evan Davis. It was available as a video podcast and on the BBC News website, as well as being shown on BBC News 24 (Fridays at 19.50, Saturdays at 13.50 amongst"
"opposite the show's star, David Hasselhoff. On 29 December 2015, he came second in ""Celebrity Mastermind"" with his specialist subject being Reeves & Mortimer. His reportedly unusual speech patterns have gathered some criticism. He has no connection to the Warburtons bread company. Chris Warburton Christopher Ernest John ""Chris"" Warburton is a British radio presenter, currently working for BBC Radio 5 Live. He presented the news and technology programme ""Saturday Edition"" on the network until October 2014, and since then has presented Saturday Breakfast alongside Eleanor Oldroyd and Sunday Breakfast alongside Sam Walker from 6am to 9am on both days. In"
"Barry Simmons Barry Simmons (born 24 November 1948) is a Scottish-born quiz show contestant and was the winner of the BBC Two show ""Are You an Egghead?"" and as a result became the sixth ""Egghead"", joining Kevin Ashman, CJ de Mooi, Daphne Fowler, Christopher Hughes and Judith Keppel on the regular show on 2 December 2008. Simmons told ""The Jewish Chronicle"" newspaper, ""It’s the best job in British quizzing and to get paid for doing something you love is just the icing on the cake. But I have to admit I hate losing."" Simmons was born in Edinburgh and lives"
"Egghead (DC Comics) Egghead is a fictional character created for the 1960s ""Batman"" television series. Played by horror film mainstay Vincent Price, the character was identifiable by his pale bald head and white and yellow suit. He believes himself to be ""the world's smartest criminal,"" and his crimes usually have an egg motif to them; he also includes egg-related puns in his speech (""egg-zactly"", ""egg-cellent"", etc.). Additionally, he would use a wide assortment of egg-shaped weapons, such as laughing gas eggs and tear gas eggs (laid by chickens on a diet of onions). Like many other villains, Egghead was created"
"Egghead (Marvel Comics) Egghead is the name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The original version (Elihas Starr) first appeared in ""Tales to Astonish"" #38 (December 1962), and was created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Larry Lieber. The second version first appeared in ""Dark Reign: Young Avengers"" #1 (July 2009), and was created by Paul Cornell and Mark Brooks. Elihas Starr was born in Queens, New York. A gifted government research atomic scientist with an egg-shaped head, Starr was dismissed for espionage and resolved to use his intellect as a criminal mastermind."
"Thing""’ provided the basis for the TV documentary ‘""Attenborough’s Eggs""’ introduced by David Attenborough (2018). Birkhead has been honorary curator of the Alfred Denny Museum in the University of Sheffield between 1980-2018. He has given numerous public lectures, including at Café Scientique, the Cheltenham Science Festival and numerous literary festivals including Ways with Words (Sheffield) and Hay on Wye. His a TED (conference) lecture on the history of ornithology has been viewed over 100,000 times. Over the course of his career, Birkhead has received a number of awards: Tim Birkhead Timothy Robert Birkhead (born 1950) is a renowned ornithologist. He"
"be the Caped Crusader (one has a French accent, which Batman does not have, and the other is left-handed, whereas Batman is right-handed), he concluded that the last, Bruce Wayne, must be Batman. Egghead (DC Comics) Egghead is a fictional character created for the 1960s ""Batman"" television series. Played by horror film mainstay Vincent Price, the character was identifiable by his pale bald head and white and yellow suit. He believes himself to be ""the world's smartest criminal,"" and his crimes usually have an egg motif to them; he also includes egg-related puns in his speech (""egg-zactly"", ""egg-cellent"", etc.). Additionally,"
"is usually broadcast as an Easter Egg, hidden at the end of the last broadcast of the evening on Dave (at around 0240 hrs) and not mentioned in TV listings. Carpool (TV series) Carpool is a British television spin-off of the web series of the same name. It is presented by English actor and comedian Robert Llewellyn. In each episode he interviews a guest while giving them a ride in his Toyota Prius. The guests are mainly comedians/comedic actors that are well known in the UK. However, Llewellyn has also interviewed musical comedian Tim Minchin and magician Paul Daniels. The"
"led by Chibnall, alongside executive producers Matt Strevens and Sam Hoyle, after Steven Moffat and Brian Minchin stepped down at the conclusion of the tenth series, and marks the third era of production in the revived series, following Russell T Davies' tenure as executive producer from 2005–2010, and Moffat's from 2010–2017. It is both the first regular episode of the revived era to be broadcast on Sunday, instead of Saturday, alongside subsequent episodes in the series, and the only episode not to feature any opening titles or credits. Since its first broadcast in the UK, the episode has received positive"
"final of the ""Brain of Britain"" and won the competition. Before the final, some controversy was caused as he was thought of as ""a professional quizzer"". As reported by the BBC website, ""There is no rule banning Eggheads from appearing on ""Brain of Britain"" – the only rule is that former champions are not allowed to return."" In 2013 he was ranked number three quizzer in the world. Simmons is Jewish and is a member of the Beth Hamidrash Hagadol Synagogue. Barry Simmons Barry Simmons (born 24 November 1948) is a Scottish-born quiz show contestant and was the winner of"
"as far as ""Doctor Who""""). In an interview, Davies said that he felt the role of the showrunner was to establish and maintain a consistent tone in a drama. ""Doctor Who"" remains the most prominent example of a British television programme with a showrunner, with Steven Moffat having taken over the post from Davies from 2010 until 2017. Chris Chibnall has since taken over from Moffat. The term has also been used to refer to other writer-producers, such as Tony Jordan on ""Moving Wallpaper"" and ""Echo Beach"", Ann McManus on ""Waterloo Road"", Adrian Hodges on ""Primeval"" and Jed Mercurio on"
"and Jacqui Oatley. The programme was previously presented by Ray Stubbs until he left the BBC at the end of the 2008–09 season. Two pundits appear per episode. Pundits who appear on the programme most commonly as of the 2017/18 season are Garth Crooks, Martin Keown, Kevin Kilbane, Dion Dublin, Leon Osman, and Danny Mills. Many other pundits have appeared during the history of the programme, including: Robbie Savage, Jason Roberts, Mark Bright, Steve Claridge, Peter Schmeichel, and Trevor Sinclair. Sinclair was fired by the BBC in January 2018 after admitting drink driving and racial abuse charges. Reporters include Chris"
"editions of ""Celebrity Eggheads"" began. These were also the first shows to feature Pat Gibson, the seventh Egghead. The first nine episodes aired until 19 December, with the tenth episode airing in March 2010. From 13 December 2010, 10 Celebrity Eggheads episodes were aired for a third series. Then, from 12 to 23 December 2011, including a Sunday show on 18 December, the format returned for a fourth series. From 10 to 21 December 2012, a further ten episodes aired. From 9 December 2013, a further 10 episodes aired. A seventh series of 22 episodes was broadcast from 3 May"
"be turned down by his former collaborator. Eventually, he pitched it to Jane Root, then controller of BBC Two, who agreed to develop it. When it was decided that the show would air on television, Michael Palin was offered the job of chairman with Fry and Davies as captains of the ""cleverclogs"" and ""dunderheads"" teams, respectively. However, when Palin decided not to take the job, the producers opted to change the format; Fry became the host, with Davies as the only regular panellist. Root commissioned a pilot and a further 16 episodes after that, although budget limitations reduced the first"
"Egghead Jr. (Looney Tunes) Egghead Jr. is a character in the animated cartoon Looney Tunes, created by Robert McKimson in the 1950s. He debuted in 1954's ""Little Boy Boo"", and made two subsequent Looney Tunes appearances in 1955's ""Feather Dusted"" and 1960's ""Crockett-Doodle-Doo"". Egghead Jr. is a large-headed and very intelligent baby chick and appeared in several shorts with bumptuous Foghorn Leghorn (also a character directed by McKimson and voiced by Mel Blanc). The only child of Miss Prissy, a widow hen, Egghead Jr. was bookish and never talked (though he mumbled when he counted playing hide-and-seek with Foghorn in"
"of the Daily Bugle, having married J. Jonah Jameson's estranged sister without JJJ's knowledge and inherited her share upon her death. Egghead (Marvel Comics) Egghead is the name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The original version (Elihas Starr) first appeared in ""Tales to Astonish"" #38 (December 1962), and was created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Larry Lieber. The second version first appeared in ""Dark Reign: Young Avengers"" #1 (July 2009), and was created by Paul Cornell and Mark Brooks. Elihas Starr was born in Queens, New York. A gifted government research"
"Evan Davis Evan Harold Davis (born 8 April 1962) is an English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC. Since autumn 2018, he has been the lead presenter of ""PM"" on BBC Radio 4. In October 2001, Davis took over from Peter Jay as the BBC's economics editor. He left this post in April 2008 to become a presenter on BBC Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. In September 2014, he left ""Today"" to become the main presenter of ""Newsnight"", replacing Jeremy Paxman, a position he held for four years. Davis is also the presenter for the BBC Two venture-capital programme ""Dragons'"
"Breakfast show when regular hosts, Jamie Theakston and Emma Bunton are away. Mulhern began presenting on CITV in 1998. He co-hosted four series of ""Finger Tips"" with Fearne Cotton from 2001 until 2003 and with Naomi Wilkinson in 2004. He presented children's show ""Tricky TV"" from 2005 to 2010. He also co-hosted ""Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown"" (originally called ""Ministry of Mayhem"") with Holly Willoughby from 2004 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, Mulhern hosted the ITV2 spin-off ""Dancing on Ice: Defrosted"", while Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby hosted the main show. Since 2007, Mulhern has hosted ITV2 spin-off ""Britain's"
"29 November 2015 after which it was temporarily replaced by regular cover show ""Madeley on Sunday"" presented by Richard Madeley. Michael Ball took over the slot on a permanent basis from April 2016, returning to the show he vacated in 2010 to allow Wogan to present. The programme featured guests and live music from BBC Radio 2 studios at Western House in London. It was broadcast for approximately 40 Sundays a year, with the remaining 12 being taken by an interim show, which since May 2012 was ""Madeley on Sunday"". Previously the interim show was ""Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch"". Wogan"
"is currently airing its second series. Nickheads Nickheads is a daily interactive show presented by Mark and Laura, airing every weekday from 4pm up to 6pm. ""Nickheads"" is broadcast daily on Nickelodeon UK. During ""Nickheads"" there are crazy games where viewers must try and guess the outcome via the sky remote. The show also airs popular Nickelodeon shows such as ""SpongeBob SquarePants"" and ""Drake & Josh"" and during these shows questions about the show pop up at the bottom of the screen and viewers must answer via the sky remote. The viewer at the end of the hour with the"